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Angie Barry

Book Review: The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James

By Angie Barry

February 19, 2020

The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James is an eery, spellbinding tale spanning two generations of women and centering on an Upstate New York motel where something hasn’t been right for a very long time. Fell, New York, 1982: Twenty-year-old Viv Delaney leaves an unhappy home in Illinois for New York City but finds…

Book Review: The Chill by Scott Carson

By Angie Barry

February 11, 2020

Over a hundred years ago, the Catskills village of Galesburg was destroyed in the name of progress. Flooded, so the Chilewaukee Reservoir could be built, in order to funnel water downstate to quench the thirst of New York City. But the people of Galesburg didn’t go without a fight. Some didn’t go at all…  They…

The Edgar Awards Revisited: The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton (Best Novel, 2011)

By Angie Barry

February 7, 2020

You may remember me. Think back. The summer of 1990. I know that’s a while ago, but the wire services picked up the story and I was in every newspaper in the country…   I stayed in the news for two or three days, but even when the cameras and the reporters moved on to…

Book Review: The Wife and The Widow by Christian White

By Angie Barry

January 21, 2020

Kate Keddie’s smooth, predictable life careens off course when her husband, John, doesn’t return from a medical conference in London. A conference, she quickly discovers, he never attended. For a job he hasn’t had in months. The bigger question was where had John been for the past three months? Nausea swept through her system. Her…

Book Review: The Mitford Scandal by Jessica Fellowes

By Angie Barry

January 20, 2020

The Mitford Scandal by Jessica Fellowes is the third book in the Mitford Murders series, where lady’s maid Louisa Cannon accompanies Diana Mitford into a turbulent late-1920s Europe. June 1928: Louisa Cannon, former nursery maid to the colorful Mitford family, is realizing the life of an independent career girl in London is more difficult than…

Book Review: Death Brings a Shadow by Rosemary Simpson

By Angie Barry

November 26, 2019

Prudence is to serve as maid of honor to her good friend Eleanor Dickson at an opulent wedding that will unite the extremely wealthy (and Yankee) Dickson family with the Bennetts, Southern aristocrats fallen on hard times in the wake of the Civil War. Eleanor deeply cares for her fiancé, Teddy Bennett, and the affection…

Book Review: Making the Monster: The Science Behind Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein by Kathryn Harkup

By Angie Barry

November 15, 2019

In Making the Monster, bestselling author and chemist Kathryn Harkup does a deep dive into Mary Shelley’s life and the historical events and scientific theories that influenced her greatest work. For two hundred years, it’s been one of the most evocative, potent names in literature. It instantly conjures up images of sparking electrical instruments, laboratories and…

The Edgar Awards Revisited: Mr. White’s Confession by Robert Clark (Best Novel, 1999)

By Angie Barry

November 15, 2019

Some things just never go out of style. Like nostalgia. And the further we get, the more people like to look back. Folks will always love to romanticize the past; put it up on a pedestal as if it was better or more exciting than the turbulent, messy present. Since the past is an open…

Book Review: Lethal Pursuit by Will Thomas

By Angie Barry

November 8, 2019

The express from Dover was still coming to a stop when Hillary Drummond leaped onto the platform. He staggered a moment, coming close to falling, but righted himself, balanced like a tightrope walker, with a suitcase in one hand and a satchel in the other. Once assured of his footing, he began to sprint along…

The Edgar Awards Revisited: Cimarron Rose by James Lee Burke (Best Novel, 1998)

By Angie Barry

November 8, 2019

But my confidence was cosmetic. Neither I nor anyone I knew in Deaf Smith had any influence over Vernon Smothers. He believed intransigence was a virtue, a laconic and mean-spirited demeanor was strength, reason was a tool the rich used to keep the poor satisfied with their lot, and education amounted to reading books full…

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